Re: gssize, gsize

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico helixcode com>]

Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> writes:

> Currently, glib.h has
> 
>  #define gint32 gssize
>  #define guint32 gsize
> 
> This strikes me as a bad idea. On a 64 bit platforms, attempts to 
> use these in place of ssize_t and size_t are going to produce warnings
> and, in extreme cases, incorrect code.
> 
> If we don't want to simply include <stddef.h> and use size_t and ssize_t,
> which strikes me as the right course. We should test for the sizes of
> these types and mirror that in gssize and gsize.
> 
> Right?

We should just use size_t and ssize_t.

  Federico